[2.4] The Rimefire Witch - Ignite Ice Spear by CantripN (6K+ Life, Acro, VP, MoM)

Theme: Kaleo "No Good"

Ever wanted a Blue Fire Witch? Well, now you can do it!

Thanks to Prophecy handing us a really cool toy in the form of Realm Ender, you can make a VERY high damage cold caster! um, fire that is. GGG doesn't believe in Cold Casters that do Cold Damage :D
See, what Ice Spear has going for it, is the fact it has 600% Increased Global Crit at range, going up by an extra 300% with a helmet enchant, and it has a 7% base crit, making it trivial to get good crit for cheap and then focusing your efforts on other things like Crit Multiplier and Fire Damage.
You can do this on Vortex, Arctic Breath or any other Cold spell (and I suggest those ideas, it'll just be a different tree a bit, with more AoE and Crit/Elemental Overload), it's just that it's very easy to get capped crit at 95% with Ice Spear for reliable Ignite without any Power Charges or wasted gems now.

***6Ls for sale on poe.trade***

Pro:
Clears T16 maps in one shot per pack along with any rares in full parties.
One shots T15 bosses (can't guarantee 6 man party 1 shots!).
Clears Ailment Immune maps just as easy.
Vaal Pact!
Acrobatics! (optional)
MoM! (optional)
Dual Curse! (or triple with lots of currency)
Survive Rare Reflect!
Can do Ele Reflect maps. Just swap LL gem and make sure you have VP and balls!
Can do any map mods. Yes, ANY.
Can do T15s on a 4L Staff :D
Looks amazing!
It's not Blade Vortex!
It's a Life build!
Confuse your party :D

Con:
Not budget for super-high end-game.
Can do Ele Reflect maps. Never said *should*. With -max this can get deadly if you're not careful.
Slow cast speed, so kiting is a bit harder (for boss fights).
It's not Blade Vortex.
It's a Life build.
Confuse your party :D

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Vids for the lazy (before I went MoM):
T10 Malformation - 60% Fire Res.
T15 Underground River - me playing badly and being lazy :D
T15 Dark Forest - wasn't as lazy, still without Shock.
T15 Abyss - Enfeeble map, using Enfeeble as 3rd curse. Have MoM and Eye of Innocence combo here.
18% Elemental Reflect -Max Res Map
Immune to Status Ailments + Monster Life

Latest MoM Versions:

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Latest Non-MoM Version:


What to look for?
Staff - Realm Ender
Chest - Kaom's Heart
Head - 300% Crit Enchant, Life and Res
Gloves - Winds of Change / Facebreaker
Boots - Blood Dance / Rare Boots
Rings - Mokou's Embrace (if using Eye of Innocence), Opal Rings with Life and Fire Damage / Crit Multi
Amulet - Eye of Innocence / Ngamahu Tiki / Rare with Crit Multi/Fire Damage + Life
Belt - Life and Res
Jewels - Life + Crit Multi (Spells/Cold/Elemental) / Fire Damage / Resists. 2nd tier would be Projectile Damage / Global Damage %, and perhaps 1 with Crit Chance (Spells/Cold/Elemental).
Flasks - Laviagnia's Spirit lets you spam spells very easily. The Overflowing Chalice is OP for Flask Sustain and boss DPS. Otherwise, just grab some Life Flasks and perhaps a Quicksilver. If you don't have Acrobatics, Rumi is fantastic.

*If you can get Immunity to Silence, do it!*
*Crit Damage gem works just fine as a replacement for Empower 3/4 at first*
*Boots with Life+Mana Leech are a must for sustain later on*
*You'll need that Vaal Clarity or at least a Mana Flask anyway*
*+1 Curse ammy + Gloves are obviously not a must, it's just a bit more DPS and clear speed*
*Yes, I'm not running any auras. The only ones that might be worth it are Purity of Fire / Arctic Armor, though I often prefer the free mana*
*Yes, even Clarity does very little on this gear/tree. It's ok for leveling, though*
*Notice the 191 STR req. for Kaom's Heart! This requires some gearing!*
*GMP/Pierce require up to 114 for 21, but Vaal Grace can go a lot higher! Level it up accordingly*
*Don't go all out on bosses on Ele Reflect, there's only so far you can go before you one-shot yourself*
*On -max res maps I suggest taking off a DPS link for Life Leech or Mana Leech, or such. The full DPS of the build can kill you on Rare Reflect on those if you roll well and they're Shocked or something like it.*

Tree:

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Credits:
Art - Sephiroth-Art (DeviantART)
Arrowmaker27 - sold me +1 Curse ammy!
osna23 - made my Facebreakers!
Garnier - made my Winds of Change!

Current Project:
Getting Life and Mana Leech on Boots, so I can use these and respec 3 points. I find Frenzy Charges are reliable only for lower content, let's say upto T14s. T15 and up, they're aren't reliable for bosses (except Kaom, he dies within 1 sec :D).


Status: *done*

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Blood Dance and/or Facebreaker are more Damage. Both give up some Life for it, and it's not 100% reliable for Blood Dance. Facebreaker is roughly 8% more total damage in my case and lets you move faster, so might be better (will test).


So far it feels better/as good. AA is certainly nice :)

Old Setups:




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Variants:

Bump for hipster build!

Oneshotting T15 bosses with Ice Spear? Sounds nice. :D

Is your Ele Prolif radius big enough without the inc aoe nodes?

Would kinda like to see a video.

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Oneshotting T15 bosses with Ice Spear? Sounds nice. :D

Is your Ele Prolif radius big enough without the inc aoe nodes?

Would kinda like to see a video.

It's not the same AoE as EA obviously, but it's enough for packs. Sometimes you need another shot for stragglers that dodged.

Will fix my boots, then make some vids.

hey mate, not sure where your 900%+ "Spell Damage" comes from but there is a difference between Spell Damage and e.g. elemental damage, because spell damage is actually not double dipping with ignite's damage. didnt look at your jewels but generally speaking elemental, fire and projectile dmg is the highest source for your dmg in your build. did you consider this?

"double dipping" is not "more"-modifiers, it's when your damage-modifier is applied on initial hit AND DoT (ignite), just saying, according to this i'm not sure your dps calculation is correct ^^ maybe you can break it down for us (im too lazy to check it...)

no vid = not endgame viable :-D i'm excited to see T16+

last but not least: you loose 50% of your flat damage basis because of conversion, did you consider using Hrimburn instead of the staff? not that you sustain 100% of the cold damage, which will be used 100% for the ignite, you also can use elemental equilibrium precisely which is a siiiiiick damage booster, just my 2 cents, im building a guide which utilize this mechanics atm that's why i participate^^ always looking for inspiration

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airparisderjesus wrote:

hey mate, not sure where your 900%+ "Spell Damage" comes from but there is a difference between Spell Damage and e.g. elemental damage, because spell damage is actually not double dipping with ignite's damage. didnt look at your jewels but generally speaking elemental, fire and projectile dmg is the highest source for your dmg in your build. did you consider this?

"double dipping" is not "more"-modifiers, it's when your damage-modifier is applied on initial hit AND DoT (ignite), just saying, according to this i'm not sure your dps calculation is correct ^^ maybe you can break it down for us (im too lazy to check it...)

no vid = not endgame viable :-D i'm excited to see T16+

last but not least: you loose 50% of your flat damage basis because of conversion, did you consider using Hrimburn instead of the staff? not that you sustain 100% of the cold damage, which will be used 100% for the ignite, you also can use elemental equilibrium precisely which is a siiiiiick damage booster, just my 2 cents, im building a guide which utilize this mechanics atm that's why i participate^^ always looking for inspiration

I'm well aware of what counts for Ignite and what doesn't :)
Instead of being lazy, go and count yourself.

As for Flat Damage? What Flat Damage? :D

You can do this build with Pyre or the gloves you mention and use Ele Equ, yes. The Pyre is better, since all that amazing Fire Damage on gear/tree wouldn't apply to the initial hit if it's not Fire (so you'd use Orb of Storms to apply Equ). It's just a lot more micromanaging, and lowers clear speed drastically. I'm sure it's more damage.

your cold damage becomes converted before any modifiers to fire. 607-911 (for your 21 ice spear, i.e. 759 cold dmg) is converted to 759/2=380 so only 380 (fire) is used for double dip basis and the rest 380 (cold) is lost

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airparisderjesus wrote:

your cold damage becomes converted before any modifiers to fire. 607-911 (for your 21 ice spear, i.e. 759 cold dmg) is converted to 759/2=380 so only 380 (fire) is used for double dip basis and the rest 380 (cold) is lost

This is not how converted damage works. The original hit gets all damage from Cold AND Fire, the Ignite obviously doesn't get Cold and Spell Damage. You're missing I have 100% converted to Fire I think (Avatar of Fire + Cold to Fire).

Link = http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Damage_conversion

with "lost" i mean it only scales with non-doubledipping modifiers like cold and spell dmg

also ye i didn't saw avatar of fire, guess this fixes my concern! sorry for the confusion, i was surprised one does a build around 50% conversion O_O